Equality And Inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

discussions—be it fairness or competition—strongly influences the equality of payoffs even in complex, full-information multiparty bargaining. Research in this working paper by HBS professor Kathleen L. McGinn View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

measures, commenting that "the pain should be borne by greedy and equally irresponsible lenders." JTG, while agreeing, didn't quite see it that way, suggesting that citizens as well as lenders... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

Summing Up When Is It In An Employer's Self-Interest to Voluntarily Raise All Wages? A laissez-faire approach to fixing labor market inequality has widespread appeal, judging by responses to this month's column. For some it is an ideal,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

01 Jan 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

surrounds them, hence they tend to congregate in a few places. They are much sought after—but also associated by some with the inequality that exists in our society, fomenting discontent and even rage. With... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

adding the software was very large. The engineers undoubtedly felt the pressure of a long-standing culture comprising equal parts of pride, arrogance, and fear. The Company is still recovering from the costs... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

financing, it won’t impede recovery as much as if all debt comes due at once. Steinwender and Garicano’s findings also hold lessons for governments wishing to provide loans to companies to fill the gap. Since not all companies are View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

place responsibility for such things as the rule of law, property rights, the environment, and the more equal distribution of wealth in the hands of those guiding for-profit public corporations. That’s the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

and destroyed much of the country's infrastructure, Mozambique presented formidable risks as a project site. The cost of the plant, which was approximately equal to the country's gross domestic product, made... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

producers, and thus worthy of slapping with 25 percent or higher penalties as they come in the country. The first three pages were chemicals and medical products, and as a... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

Abstract Are the doors of access open equally for all in business? Are talent and hard work really enough to make it to the top? As much as we would like to believe in the American meritocracy, an elusive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

Mandarin Yung Wing, trusted by both China and the West to catalyze change. There are certainly influential Chinese, equally comfortable in the United States and China today,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

argues for the "public's right to know," but suggests two other questions in assessing the need for a takeover: "What's the cause of the problem? And what are the public interests at stake?" Gerald Nanninga suggests... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

marketing and other expenses to grow the business, and to develop a more accurate estimate of firm value. Using a model for valuing networked customers, Gupta found that in an auction scenario, buyers View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

Like many companies, IBM took big strides to eliminate discrimination by attempting to ignore cultural, racial, and other differences among its vast worldwide workforce. That ended when Lou Gerstner became CEO. Gerstner initiated a... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

Countries need to develop or acquire test kits and deploy testing sites. As mentioned earlier, testing is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible enemy. Equally important is to... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

participants were given a situation involving a global context (strategizing about the future of a foreign wire service and advertising at an international sports competition). When asked to brainstorm in a local context (a US newspaper... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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